Weekly Question: Should Israel apologize to Turkey to renew relations between the two states?
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August 4, 2011
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Evelyn
8:19 pm
Aug 04, 2011
No definitely not. Turkey should be the one to apologize/
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Michal Ravdin
9:33 pm
Aug 04, 2011
Turkey should apologize for allowing the terror organization IHH organize the flotilla from Turkey in order to break a legitimate (!) blockade, and Turkey should prosecute the terrorists who tried to lynch our soldiers and the captain who told our soldiers to go to Auschwitz in answer to their call to turn the ship to Ashkelon.
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RICHARD
10:43 pm
Aug 04, 2011
Apologize for what? Nonsense.
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moise
10:53 pm
Aug 04, 2011
NO!
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David
11:25 pm
Aug 04, 2011
Turkey should apologise to Israel for supporting the Flotilla. If they truly expect us to apologise for defending ourselves, then we should attack them and demand an apology from them after, regardless of outcome!
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Miriam-Tova
12:17 am
Aug 05, 2011
There is nothing for Israel to apologize for. Turkey is to blame and should apologize.
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Harvey Levin
12:19 am
Aug 05, 2011
Israel should not have to apologize to Turkey for its reaction to near deadly provocation. However, in order to attempt restoring the prior cooperative relationship with Turkey, an expression of regret that, unfortunately,Turkish lives were lost, might help.
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valerie
7:18 am
Aug 05, 2011
why even think of groveling ??
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Gary Katz
12:30 am
Aug 05, 2011
Actually, I think Israel should send its own flotilla to Kurdish rebels in Turkey and see how Turkey likes it.
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Bob Michael
12:33 am
Aug 05, 2011
No. Any expression of regret would only feed Turkey’s current policy of hostility towards Israel. The Turks, like all nation states will only respect strength, not appeasement. They know they enabled a provocation toward Israel and it was done to measure Israel’s capability. Turkey is responsible for the deaths; let them live with it.
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Miriam
1:35 am
Aug 05, 2011
It’s unanimous! No apologies!
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Aliza Tamara Lowell
1:59 am
Aug 05, 2011
No. There is no need for apologize for self-defense.
The Turks have a nerve to demand apology from Israel, while the Turkish government never did apologize for the Armenian Genocide? They exterminated between one and one and a half million Armenians, which IS a crime. Israel practicing it’s right for self-defense is NOT a crime.
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Adam
2:37 am
Aug 05, 2011
Big NO. This was an outright provocation.Let’s not forget Armenian Genocide and Turkish denial.
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Naftali Spector
2:45 am
Aug 05, 2011
Israel should definitely not apologize to Turkey over this incident. In fact Turkey should apologize to Israel for supporting the terrorists who organized this flotilla.
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Walter Margulis
2:57 am
Aug 05, 2011
Shoul G’d apologize to the devil for sending him to hell?
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Norman G
3:08 am
Aug 05, 2011
Hell no ! and double hell no !!!
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Jack Warnick
4:31 am
Aug 05, 2011
No. Turkey should be apologizing to Israel.
Meanwhile, aid to the Kurds was suggested; let’s also send some help to the Greek Cypriots.
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Tony Sophocleous
4:53 am
Aug 05, 2011
He who apologises without reason lives to regret it…..
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Ephraim Shalom
8:39 am
Aug 05, 2011
Should Israel apologize to Turkey to renew relations between the two states? If one popular definition of an apology is “an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret,” then the answer depends on what exactly Erdogan feels Israel should apologize for.
The loss of innocent lives is always regrettable, but the Youtube video documenting IDF forces boarding the Mavi Marmara (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYjkLUcbJWo ) demonstrates that the lives of innocents (other than the Israelis) were not in jeopardy in this case. As the video clearly reveals, the IDF soldiers who boarded the vessel were forced to defend their own lives and those of their fellow IDF soldiers against the so-called “peaceful protestors” who can be seen assaulting them, attempting to kill, injure and/or inflict bodily harm on them. The video clearly reveals no error or discourtesy on the part of the Israelis, so an apology from Israel is both inappropriate and unnecessary. If that is the price of Erdogan’s idea of “friendship,” then will Erdogan apologize for supporting violent protestors who attempted to kill Israeli soldiers? If not, then Israel will have lost nothing of importance by declining Erdogan’s meaningless offer.
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Mark Stern
1:35 pm
Aug 05, 2011
Definitely No apologies from Israel. The blockade is legal and Turkey was aware of this fact.
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Steve Mann
3:19 pm
Aug 05, 2011
Who`s idea was it to even think of apologising? Oh! I know -It was Turkey`s!
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